Modern English biography

Lang_ (1894); _Longman’s Mag. April 1894 pp._ 644–50. MURRAY, SIR TERENCE AUBREY (son of Terence Murray, captain 48 foot, a settler at Lake George, N.S.W.) _b._ Limerick 1810; went to New South Wales with his father 1827; gazetted a magistrate 1833, when he helped to repress bush ranging; member for Murray, King, and Georgiana in legislature of N.S.W. 1843–56; member for Argyle in the legislative assembly 1856–62; member for the Southern Boroughs 1856; secretary for lands and works 26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856, and 7 September 1857 to 12 January 1858; speaker of the legislative assembly 31 Jany. 1860; member of legislative council 1862 to death; president 14 Oct. 1862 to death; knighted by patent 4 May 1869. _d._ Sydney 22 June 1873. _Australian men of mark i_ 159–64 (1889) _portrait_. MURRAY, THOMAS. _b._ parish of Girthon, Kirkcudbrightshire 1792; entered univ. of Edinb. 1810; a licensed minister in the established church and a preacher for some time; wrote for sir David Brewster’s Cyclopædia; helped to found the Edinburgh Galloway Association 1843, secretary 1843 to death; secretary of Edinburgh School of Art 1844 to death; established at 21 George st. Edinb. the printing business of Murray and Gibb 1841, the firm became her majesty’s printers for Scotland, he retired about 1860; member of Edinb. town council 1854–60; author of The literary history of Galloway 1822; The life of Samuel Rutherford 1828; The life of Robert Leighton 1828; The life of John Wycliffe 1829; Biographical annals of the parish of Colinton